Henri Weber (23 June 1944 – 26 April 2020) was a French politician and Member of the European Parliament for the north-west of France. He was a member of the Socialist Party (PS), which is part of the Party of European Socialists, and sat on the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education.
Henri Weber | |
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Member of the European Parliament | |
In office 2004–2014 | |
Member of the French Senate for Seine-Maritime | |
In office 1995–2004 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Leninabad, Tajik SSR, Soviet Union | 23 June 1944
Died | 26 April 2020 Avignon, France | (aged 75)
Nationality | French |
Political party | Socialist Party |
Spouse | Fabienne Servan-Schreiber |
Children | 3 |
Relatives | Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber (father-in-law) |
Alma mater | Faculté des lettres de Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne University |
Weber was born in Leninabad (now Khujand), Tajikistan, Soviet Union, in a Soviet labor camp, on a hospital ship moored on the banks of the Syr-Daria river, to Polish Jewish parents who had fled from the town of Chrzanow, Galicia, during the Nazi 1939 invasion of Poland, and who later immigrated to France from Poland.[1][citation needed] His father was a watchmaker.
Henri Weber was an activist in the May 68 uprising and was a leading member of the Trotskyist Jeunesse communiste révolutionnaire (Revolutionary Communist Youth) and Revolutionary Communist League (LCR) before joining the PS.[citation needed]
He was also a substitute for the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, a member of the delegation to the EU–Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee, and a substitute for the delegation for relations with Japan.[citation needed]
Weber died, aged 75, after contracting COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in France.[2]